With 20 years of film, television and dot-com experience, award-winning producer/director/writer Richard Halpern has worked in many facets of the entertainment industry.
In addition to producing and directing W.M.D., Richard also wrote and produced Under the Bed for Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions and Radar Pi ctures (Riddick, Spring Breakers); produced the feature film All Shook Up starring Sarah Chalke of TV's Scrubs; executive produced the television series The Strand starring Katherine Helmond (Soap, Brazil); co-produced the feature film The Objective directed by Daniel Myrick (The Blair Witch Project); produced and directed the feature film ZZYZX starring Kenny Johnson (The Shield); and produced Bigfoot County for Lionsgate Entertainment.
Richard conceived and chaired Orlando's first International Film Festival. With a gala opening night party at the Disney/MGM Studios theme park, the festival ran for 10 days on six screens with over 100 films in exhibition and a half dozen name talent in attendance.
Richard was president and CEO of PMF Productions in Los Angeles, a dot-com wholesale gift business with revenues of over two million dollars, highlighted by a mass-selling compact disc that has sold over 300,000 copies to date. Richard's company and movies have been publicized in over 500 media outlets including The Tonight Show, The View, L.A. Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, The Howard Stern Show, The Donny and Marie Show, USA Today, Maxim, Reader's Digest and Money Magazine.
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